The Boston Area Lactation Connection

I'm on the road more these days and, come June, I'll be back on the road full time. 🙂 So I figured I should update you all on my service range. Shoot a text to the office line (617)237-0727 to check availability for home visits or visit my website to book office or virtual appointments. Please note that I can occasionally see people in locations not listed above, so always check!

Beyond Birthing's most popular groups have been combined into a new offering:

Nurture and Nourish-New Baby and Feeding Support Group.

Daily, Monday through Thursday, from 10:30 until noon right here at in Beverly.

This is a wonderful way to connect with other parents and get the support you need from seasoned postpartum practitioners. Whether it's your first kid or your last, we all need a village!

Yesterday, today and everyday. I am grateful for families, colleagues and patients for trusting me, supporting me and loving me. 🥰

If anyone would like to know the key to my heart, by the way, this picture sums it up. The greatest thing about being an adult is that you get to have your own traditions. So Korean food for Thanksgiving it was. Dan threw it down in the kitchen and we got to spend 2 hours devouring 김치찌개 (kimchi stew), 떡국 (rice cake soup with brisket), 파전 (veggie pancake thingy. I'm bad at translating Korean food into English!), 삼겹살 (grilled pork belly), 잡채 (glass noodles with veggies and more brisket), various side dishes and 참이슬 (soju). 🥰

The past few weeks have been such fun at Baby Cafe. I've gotten to spend a few minutes here and there helping out, but I'm always bummed to have to miss the majority of it. No more! Im blocking off my schedule and will be available from 10:30 until 11:30 tomorrow for more complex questions if they arise. Whether you are brestfeeding, pumping, combo feeding or weaning, you're welcome to come on by!

Welcome to The Boston Area Lactation Connection.
Since moving my office up to Beverly in the space, I thought I should re-introduce myself!

I'm Kira Kim, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Clinical Herbalist specializing in reproductive endocrinology and mama to 4 amazing kids (and one geriatric, diabetic feline).

After a teary conversation this morning with a new parent who felt bullied by her pediatricians office lactation consultant when she wanted to combo feed, I wanted to speak on my practice motto.

"Feed the baby, save your sanity," came about organically as it is something I have repeated to new parents so often over the years. Whatever the overarching goal is, this is what I keep in the forefront of my mind as a practitioner.

As an IBCLC, my goal is to serve ALL families through this lens. I have plenty of families that are exclusively breastfeeding, but I regularly do weaning consults, functional assessments and bottling care plans for fully formula feeding families and combo feeding education.

Being non-judgemental is not just a tag-line, it's a way of life here at The Boston Area Lactation Connection.

If you are in need of clinical lactation care, infant feeding advice of any kind, or have questions on how herbalism can help you balance your hormones, shoot me a line at [email protected]